Many expectations rested on this meeting, and they were not disappointed.
“This Wednesday, June 29, during the NATO summit in Madrid, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced a considerable reinforcement of the American military presence [en Europe], reports the Spanish daily The country. Not content to increase from four to six the number of their destroyers deployed on the naval base [espagnole] of Rota, as they had exposed the day before, the Americans multiplied the announcements. And the log to detail:
“Installation in Poland of a permanent headquarters for their 5e army corps, dispatch of a support battalion to Polish territory, deployment in Romania of a brigade of approximately 3,500 men on rotation, reinforcement of their presence in the Baltic countries, stationing of two additional squadrons of F-35 combat in the UK and increasing air defense capabilities in Germany and Italy.”
This burst of announcements from the United States represents “a new milestone” in a context of conflict in Eastern Europe, raises the title. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Washington had already sent 20,000 additional troops to the Old Continent, thus bringing the total of the American contingent in Europe to 100,000 units.
“A NATOization of Europe”
For the newspaper in Madrid, the city hosting the summit, the announcement concerning the battalion in Poland has, in addition to its military meaning, “deep political significance”. Indeed, this will be the “first permanent deployment of the United States on the eastern flank of NATO”, that is to say, the one most exposed to the Russian threat. Concrete action to respond effectively to “geopolitical change of a magnitude not seen in decades” represented by the conflict in Ukraine.
This war also led Sweden and Finland to join the Atlantic Alliance. The agreement to this effect, already announced on Tuesday evening, is undoubtedly the most important result of this summit.
“Vladimir Poutine wanted a ‘Finlandization of Europe’ and instead he gets a ‘NATO of Europe’”, reacted to this subject Joe Biden, whose remarks are reported by the Italian daily The Republic
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